Episode title: Wake Up Classy 97 with Josh and Chantel - Tuesday, December 30th, 2025 Episode summary introduction: As 2025 winds down, Josh & Chantel do what they do best... laugh their way through real life. From tulips trying to bloom way too early and the eternal question of why bacon never tastes as good at home, to a heartwarming drone rescue of a lost puppy and some passionate thoughts on the Stranger Things series finale, they also tackle holiday burnout (goodbye Christmas decorations... maybe), sugar overload confessions, sleep study adventures, fantasy football trash talk, a seriously touching moment celebrating 67 listener Christmas cards that turned the studio into a wall of gratitude, and more! Timestamps: (0:00) - Bonus: Tulips in winter (3:29) - Up & atom (6:19) - Good News (10:39) - Studio decor is still up (16:11) - Goodies gotta go (19:59) - Christmas alarms (24:06) - Stranger Things finale tomorrow (29:30) - Orange sticks (33:08) - Sleep studies (39:49) - 67 Christmas cards (44:11) - Fantasy Football recap (50:04) - Frames for Christmas (57:53) - Would You Rather (1:00:47) - Resolutions Visit our website: https://riverbendmediagroup.com/info-page/wakeupclassy97/ Email the show - wakeupclassy97@gmail.com Subscribe to our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Classy97KLCE?sub_confirmation=1 Follow us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@classy97klce Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Classy97klce Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/classy97klce/ Follow us on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/classy97klce.bsky.social Follow us on Threads: https://www.threads.net/@classy97klce Follow us on X/Twitter: https://x.com/Classy97klce Full show transcript: It is Josh and Chantel as we are closing in, closing in on the final podcast episodes of 2025. How about that? How about that? Yeah, so we've got today's show and tomorrow's show, which is pretty cool. Thanks for listening. We've been doing the show now as a podcast for, what, two years? We're pretty close too, and we've got almost 400 episodes in the archive, which is pretty impressive. So thanks everybody for listening. Wherever you listen, whether you listen live every weekday or you listen on demand on the podcast, we appreciate you. I was talking to a coworker yesterday. We've been having some unseasonably warm weather, and I know that there have been some buds that have been tempted to bloom. Like flowers and stuff? Flowers. A coworker of mine said that her tulips, she started to see some of her tulips. I haven't looked at the front yard, but I would not be surprised if some of your tulips have started to try to come up, and that is months early. Okay, so I just looked up some information and it says that tulips are surprisingly tough. It's not unusual for them to poke up early during a warm spell, even in December. The green tips that you might be seeing are just the leaves and the flower buds stay protected underground. Here's what usually happens. If it turns cold again, which it usually will, the growth will pause. Tulips can handle the snow and heart freezes once they've sprouted, and you might see slightly shorter stems or earlier blooms in the spring, but it's rare that they'll be ruined. Okay. Well, and they probably, even if they have an off year, they would be back to normal the next year. I think so. Okay. Yeah. If you don't have much mulch, you can add two to three inches to kind of help cover it and insulate it. Good idea. Don't cut the green shoots back. They need those leaves and avoid fertilizing wait until spring. So just kind of leave them alone, add more bark if you need to. Give them some mulch. Yeah. That's a good idea. Let's take a look today and see if they're poking up and if they are, let's mulch them. Okay. Mulch them tulips. If they do fully leaf out and they experienced the repeated extreme cold without insulation, that's a little bit trickier, but it says even then they can still rebound. Okay. Well, let's take a look, see and see what's happening because they are on the south side of the house. And so they, they got the sun and the warm temps for, you know, the days and days. They're on the north side of the house. They are on the south side all day long. They are on the south side. I know. You questioned me on direction. The one thing I like, I'm pretty solid with direction and you're like, no, you got it wrong. Anyway, stay down tulips. It's not time yet. Yeah. But we have some mulch in the shed. So I'm not worried about being able to extra mulch them. No, we'll be okay. All right. Good info though. Shall we start the show? Let's begin. Here we go. So I have a question. What is it? If the day before Christmas Eve is called Christmas Adam is today New Year's Adam? Or is it up in Adam? That's, that I just came up with. Did you? Just now. It sounded like you'd been working on that for a long time. I literally, I just did that. Okay. Clever, Josh. It's real clever. New Year's Adam. Yeah. Or up in Adam? Up in Adam. Up in ATOM? No. That's when you get to do science. Up in Adam. Oh, yeah. See, now that would be like a morning summer science camp. Yeah. Called Up in Adam. Yeah. Yeah. It is bacon day. Hey. I like bacon. Do you? Uh-huh. I don't hate bacon. I like that good bacon though. What kind of bacon? I don't feel like the bacon that I ever make at home is that good bacon. I agree. Why is that? I don't know. Are you getting the wrong brand? No. Are you sure? Yes. Okay. Maybe, I don't know. Is it the way you're cooking it? Maybe. Maybe. What do they do differently at the restaurant that I'm not doing? Unsure bud. Me too. Happy bacon day to you though. Let's have a BLT. Oh. That sounds nice. I've had a BLT in a long time. It's a tough one. Call your mom. Tell her we want BLT. I know. She does make the best. It's been a long time since I've had a mom's BLT. Uh-huh. Same. Well, eat bacon today. Okay. All right. Up and at them. If you eat bacon only if your doctor says it's okay. Well, yeah. But do I have to ask my doctor every time I want to eat something? I mean, no. But if you've already got high cholesterol, maybe you should just check. All right. That's all. That's all I'm saying. Just be safe. Safe with your bacon. Isn't that part of the carnivore diet? The keto thing? Unsure. Atkins or whatever. Because meat. Yeah. I don't know. Does it look like I'm on a diet? I don't know about diets. Well, you sound like you know a lot about how I shouldn't be eating bacon. No. I wasn't saying you in particular. I felt like it was an attack. No, it wasn't pointed. Personal bacon attack. Was it? Are you sure? Positive. Okay. All right. Up and at them. So I'm going to introduce you to a dog named Shade. Okay. And Shade was out on a walk with its human. And a scary noise happened. And Shade got scared and took off. Oh, Shade. In the cold New Jersey night. Everybody kind of got together neighbors as well as Gina who is Shade's human. And Shade's five months old. Oh no. So not a very big puppy. A lot of training still going on. And Shade got scared and ran away. And neighbors and Gina all teamed up to try to look for Shade but no luck. And it started getting really dark and it was cold and the wind started picking up. Oh no. And then it began to lightly snow. Oh no. So Gina put some clothes and some other items outside the house that smelled like home hoping it would lure Shade back home. Smart. A friend put Gina in touch with Bailey's Bridge which is a local service that specializes in locating lost pets but everything I tried nothing worked. And more hours passed and Gina was like something has to be done. I don't know what to do. So Bridgetto Home, they recommended the USAR drone team which is a veteran based nonprofit that provides a variety of services including pet rescues. And Michael Parazale, let's try that. Michael Parazale, he is the founder of USAR and he has several different locations around the area and they arrived at Gina's home at about 7.15 p.m. after Shade had been missing for more than 24 hours. Oh no. He's got a drone and you've seen the drone I have. It's nothing like this thing. This thing is huge and it's equipped with thermal cameras so he can go up at night and he can look for thermal signatures. They were near some woods and so they saw a whole bunch of different animals and for about 20 minutes they were like, I don't know. I don't know what, where else to look. And he kind of does a search pattern where he starts at a small circle and then kind of works his way out and works his way out. So kind of a spiral being able to scan the area. And as he was kind of looking at all these different animals, he saw a silhouette and he was like, I think that might be Shade. And so he kind of dropped down to get a better look and it was. He had located Shade only two blocks from home. Away from home. Yeah. He says animals typically don't travel very far from their home and fortunately Shade was right there. Oh, good. So a family member headed to the location and called for Shade and this is all caught on thermal camera. Shade runs excitedly to this person. He's like, yeah, let's go a human. I know. Took 41 minutes to find him to find Shade. Yep. Pretty incredible. So he was lost for 41 minutes. After 24 hours. Okay. After more than 24 hours. Oh, got it. Okay. It took 41 minutes for the drone to locate Shade. It's a new record for the fastest rescue by the Jersey Shore area drone team. The group does have a GoFundMe set up to the USIR drone team pet rescue search fund where you can donate to help them be able to provide the service, which is pretty cool. They said they fund their search and rescue missions on an almost daily basis for wildlife and pet owners. And they use the fund for many people in desperate need, especially the elderly, since sometimes they're only form of companionship as these animals and they like to help them without cost, which is really cool. So if you want to help them continue to be able to do that, you can donate to their GoFundMe. Just look up the USIR drone team and you'll see their picture there and stuff. Michael donates his time and expertise to help those who cannot afford to hire a professional, which is pretty cool. Sweet. Yeah. Shade's home. Pretty epic video. And let's be a little more careful there, Shade. Shade. You know what I mean? Stop running away. I know. Settle down. It's good news. We talked about the studio decorations in here yesterday and how they're still up and how it's very festive and I'm sad to take them down. But I walked in this morning and I went, ugh. Why? Because what? I don't know. You saw the weight of it? I just am over it. Okay. So in between songs, guess what I'll be doing? Oh, I'm surprised that it took 24 hours. I really expected you to have this attitude yesterday. I'm surprised that I didn't have this attitude yesterday and I think it's just because I like the twinkling lights in here. Sure. Because we often, because it's so early, we keep the lights off. Right. The overhead lights because they're fluorescent and ew. I know. And so I like the twinkly lights, but I'm just looking at that Christmas banner back there and the wreath on the door and I go, yeah, we got to do something about this. We don't have a bin. I know, but I'm going to start making a pile. Oh, great. Why? What? Now we're just going to have a pile? Yeah. Just wait till we have a bin. Oh, I can't. You can. Why didn't we get a bin yesterday? We didn't. I can today. I just didn't go to the store to get a bin. You don't want to just use a bin that we already have? No, it's not the right size. This is the whole problem with our storage thing. Just use a bin we have. You did this at home. We didn't have bins yet. You started packing the old boxes and bins and I was like, what are you doing? Like, I got to get this stuff out of here. Because of my antsy. I'm like, just go sit down. Get it out of here. Just go sit down. I can't. I got to look at that Christmas banner. I at least have to take that down. It says Christmas. Yeah. It's over. Settle down. Get it out of here. I don't know what's wrong with you. I don't either because I love putting Christmas decorations up, but once it's over, I'm like, and this is actually the earliest that I've de-decorated. It's why it's settled down. De-decorated? De-decorated. Yeah. No. Undecorated. De-decorated. No. Yeah. I'll say it the way I want to say it. You really want to come at me right now? Yeah. What's going on? What's going on with you? What's your toad, dude? I'm fine. I don't know. I'm a little worried about you. Why? Well, because of this toad, dude. Well, because you told me that I couldn't take down the decorations. Yeah. Told you to settle down. Just take it easy. Why can't I? They're not going anywhere. Why can't I just make a pile? Why do they have to be in a pile when they can just be hung up? It's the same. If you don't have a bin, you're going to take them down and put them in a pile and then have to move that pile into the bin. If you wait for the bin, you take them down and put them in the bin. Bada bing one step. Just chill out. Okay. I had a question for you. What? Because you're in here longer than I am. Yeah. I'm only in here for four hours. Right. You're in here for eight. Correct. How'd it go yesterday? Fine. You felt fine with it? It doesn't matter. It doesn't faze you. No. You know what I look around and see? Work that has to be done. I know. So settle down. Sit down. This is like when you're going, hey, you know what we should do today? Paint the basement. No, we shouldn't. You know what we should do? Sit down and relax. Okay. Okay. But that painted basement, we've been trying to do that for three years. No. Yes. We bought the paint a year ago. No, that's not true. Yes, it is. It's been at least two years. No way. Yeah. I bet. Disagree. I didn't have the wall built for the theater two years ago. We've been trying to paint that basement for a year. A couple. No. I'm just saying it's a winter project and if we go into summer and that basement isn't painted again this year, I'm going to lose it. Well, we're going to need some boxes and bins to pull all the books out of the bookshelf and put somewhere while we take the bookshelves down and paint behind them. Yeah. See, work. You know what's more fun? Sit down. Sit down. I just say it. I can't not have that basement not painting it anymore. I was looking at it yesterday going, wait, I got to do something about this. Worry about the hutch. Okay. Get that out of there. All right. Where are you going to put it? I don't know. Nowhere. Because the garage is full of stuff. You know what it's full of? Old bins. Can't even walk out there because all the old bins. Because someone said, let's get new bins for all the Christmas. Exactly. What do we do with our old bins? Hold the books from the bookshelf while we paint. Okay. Oh, that's my job. I'll do that today. No. Sit down. How I feel. A-N-C. Let's step into the new year doing something cool. Working? Yeah. Sit down. Finish in a project. Let's go. You want to know how I'm going into the new year? Slow and easy. Yeah, I know. Yeah. Take a breath, man. Calm the to, dude. No, let's do it. Let's get her done. What's wrong with you? What do I want to say? How do I even want to begin this? You made some goodies. I made some for Christmas. Sugar cookies. And then I also made some, they call it Christmas crack. It's like a Christmas toffee. Yeah. It's like Ritz crackers and then it's like a caramel sauce. It's a, yeah. And then chocolate on top and some nuts and whatnot. Yeah. Yeah. I feel like I was the only one eating both of those items. I saw Emery eating some of the cookies. I didn't have any of either. Emery, here's what happened. Emery made those sugar cookies and then she got bored halfway through and so I finished those sugar cookies. That's what always happens. And yesterday I looked at them and I had to eat in two of the cookies and then I ate some of the toffee and I said, I can't, I can't keep doing this. Yeah. I can't keep living this way. Can't have these snacks around. So I opened the garbage can and they went and let's say- I was standing there watching you as you, as a tear streamed down, a single tear. They had their day. They had their day down your cheek and you went, goodbye, sweet. Yeah. They certainly had their day in the sun. The toffee was a little bit, a little bit- What's been a week? Old. Yeah. It was like breaking my teeth. It was just a little bit old. Was it still good? Yeah. I mean, I was still going to eat it, but that's why I had to say goodbye. I couldn't- Goodbye, sweet treats. I couldn't. My jeans were like, girl. Oh, were they? Girl. Every time I put on a pair of jeans, they were like, girl. We got- Have another toffee. See how tight we can fit. So I did my part and I said, you've treated me real nice. It's a big day. I know. Rolling into New Year with no sweets. Now that's not true. No, we still have sweets. There's so much sweets around. It's bananas in the house. It is bananas in the house. That's why I had to say goodbye to the ones that I had to say goodbye to. Yeah. Because it's too much. It's too much. I really like those s'mores things. I've been snacking on those. We're about out. We bought two bags. Well we took them to a party. We only brought one bag home. I think there's only one bag in there. I think- You think there's more than one bag? There is another bag in there, dear. Let's go. Those things are good. Here's the thing. We got some homemade goodies too from some people. I look at the homemade goodies versus the snack, like the bagged goodies. The bagged goodies are going to last longer. I see. I'm going to save those. That makes sense. I'm going to eat the fresh goodies. That's why we've been snacking on snickerdoodles and homemade cookies and all the peppermint barks. Oh, kinds of stuff. It just keeps- it never ends. It never ends. It's too- that's why I said I got to say goodbye to this. I just got to say goodbye. I broke up with the goodies. Single tier. I know. I still got too much sweets in the house. I know. I did high-five. How are we ever going to cut this sugar addiction with all these delicious sweets around? I certainly did my part in trying to eat as many of the goodies as I could. Oh, good. That was a valiant effort. So you're saying I should do my best to finish out these s'mores so that we have no mores? Sure. Cute. Look at what you did. Look at what you did. We have old children. One is 21. One is 16. That's right. And so we- I don't know about you. I'm speaking for you too, but I expected to have a nice little sleep in on Christmas. Yeah. Because we have old kids. Right. And to be fair, I mean they weren't getting doors banged down at five in the morning or anything. I mean it was- you would told the kids, listen, no earlier than seven. Which I think is fair. I found out later from memory she woke us up at 7.30. Right. And she said, I gave you an extra half hour. She told me that she had set an alarm to wake up on Christmas. So she didn't even- she knew that she wasn't going to get herself up. So she was like, I'm going to set an alarm for Christmas morning. Which made me chuckle. Who sets an alarm for Christmas morning? Kids who are excited about Christmas morning. Yeah, but usually your excitement wakes you up. Well yeah. But just in case, I'm sure in my history of Christmas mornings, I guarantee I set an alarm. Did you? Sure of it. I don't think I ever did because I was like, oh, one, I knew I was never going to go to sleep. Or two, I knew that my adrenaline and my excitement would be enough of an alarm clock to wake me up. I'm trying to think. There have been times in my life that I have had a hard time falling asleep, but they are so few. I am- I'm a pro sleeper. You really are. I can sleep in a minute. And pretty much anywhere. Yeah. Yes, you can. And so I don't think I've had a lot of trouble in falling asleep. It's always been the waking up that's the hard part for me. So I'm sure, I guarantee that I was probably her age or younger and went, I'm setting an alarm. Yeah, that sounds like you. Yep. So she got that from you for sure. Oh yeah. Meanwhile, me over here, even as a young kid, was like, nah. No way. My body knows what to do. Yeah. Yeah. You just trust your rhythms? Yeah. You do. Yeah. Well, not now, but on Christmas morning, when I was little, yeah. Okay. Like I said, you didn't go to sleep or you just knew to wake up. I mean, I knew to wake up, but I just, you know, I can use the assist. I have the technology. Why not put the technology to work? It doesn't cost me anything. I already have the alarm clock set it. I'm not- listen, you are acting all defensive. I'm not attacking you for setting an alarm clock. No, you're attacking the behavior. No. A little bit. I just thought it was funny. Yeah. That's all. I also thought it was adorable. I think it's cute that our kids still get excited for Christmas. Oh, it's fantastic. I still like that people get excited for Christmas morning. Makes me happy. It's a good time. There's a great buzz about it. We had a great time on Christmas morning. I did anyway. We always do. We're speaking for all of us. Yes. I also had a good time. Is that what you're looking for? Even our little dog? Yep. Who unwrapped one thing and then was like, I'm good. Then there was a terrorist around all the wrapping paper. I've never seen tinier little shards of wrapping paper than this year. Luna, the Wonder Jack Russell had a heyday with the wrapping paper. She likes to hide her presents in there and then try to find them again. She's a nut. But it was fun to watch. Alarm clocks for Christmas. That's right. Set them. Don't forget them. Nice. Thank you. Tomorrow is the finale of Stranger Things. It is not just the finale of the season, it's the finale of the show. It's the series finale. That's so sad. I know. We're all caught up. We're ready. I had people ask me in the office yesterday if I'd all been caught up. I'm already, am I caught up? You bet I am. I'm ready. Oh yeah, I'm ready. Here's the thing. They are doing a theatrical release of the finale. Are they really? Yeah. Well, it's two hours long. Two hours and 30 minutes runtime. Two hours and 30 minutes. Yeah. The actual runtime will be shorter than that because that includes credits and everything else. I'm going to have to take a mid break. No, you're not. Yeah. You better be prepared. This is a big deal. Okay. We watched the three episodes that came out on Christmas day. And I didn't need to take a break for those and those were each an hour long, weren't they? Yeah. So I'm fine. You'll be fine. I will be fine. Here's the thing about the theatrical release. Little bit of data for you. Oh, I love data. 1.1 million people have RSVP'd to watch the finale in theaters on New Year's Eve tomorrow. 1.1 million? Yeah. 1 million, 100,000 people. Over a million people have said we're going to the movie theater to watch the finale of Stranger Things in the theater. This show is a little bit cray-cray, isn't it? 3,500 showtimes across more than 620 theaters are completely sold out. Really? Not one theater in East Idaho. That's okay. I'm just going to watch it from home. I understand. But what an epic way to end the series and not one theater in East Idaho has the show. I'm sorry. I don't know what to tell you. Well, I'm a little upset about it. Well, then contact some higher-up. Don't contact some higher-ups. You just have to be disappointed. You have to go to Salt Lake or I was trying to see if Boise had anything, but you do have to go to Salt Lake. Boise also has screens. But I feel like somebody missed something. Somebody didn't check a box. Somebody didn't go, oh, yeah. We want to carry that in our theater. Or maybe there's just only a certain amount of space that theaters can have. And they were like, oh, you know what? We know that Avatar is going to be huge and we know that Anaconda is going to be huge and we know that Zootopia is still pretty huge. What did I just say about this? Over a million people have already RSVP'd to go see it in theaters. What I'm telling you is that they didn't have enough space in the theater. Yes, they do. Or maybe it was too expensive to get the rights. I doubt that. You don't know the movie theater life. I really don't know. You don't know what you're talking about. They would have made the money back. It's a good investment in the biggest show in the world right now. I get it, bro, but I'm just trying to defend the movie theater people. I think somebody missed the ball. I think somebody wasn't paying attention or they made the decision and went, I don't like that show, so I'm not bringing it. Also, here's the other thing. Maybe the company, the production company is like, no, we're only going to let these few places have it. You are correct. It is very specific theaters. That's what I'm saying. And ours didn't sign up. The one in Boise did. All the ones in Salt Lake did. But not the ones here. I'm so sorry. I don't know what to tell you. You should be sorry. You should be. I am. Hey, but guess what? Hey, guess what? You'll be able to watch it in the comfort of your own home? I understand. It's not like I can't see it, but I can't go to the theater and see it, which would be a pretty cool experience. It would be, but it's also pretty cool at home too, because guess what? You can pause if you need to go to the restroom. I understand. And I understand the benefits of a home theater. That's why I built it. I get it. You don't have to sell me on it. You said that there's a finale teaser that just got released. They did release the final trailer. Okay. It is on YouTube and everywhere else. I want to watch it with Emery. So hopefully she doesn't watch it without us. She always watches it without us. She never waits for us. She does, but she lets us know that she's been waiting all day. Six o'clock tomorrow night, I got plans. I'll be busy watching the final couple of hours of the show. You're going to have to wait. We have a plan. You have to wait until like, it's going to be like 10 or 11 by the time you get to watch it. Nope. 6pm. No. No. Tomorrow. I got plans. No, not that. I'll be watching Stranger Things. We got, all of us got those orange sticks in our stocking. That's right. Well, you guys, the boys got orange sticks and the girls got raspberry sticks because the raspberry sticks are better than the orange sticks. And that is where you're wrong again. Wrong again. That's right. I do. You heard it here first. You are mistaken once again. You were orange stick shaming our sun last night and I didn't appreciate it. You didn't appreciate it? No. You don't get to, you don't get to shame anyone over like Christmas season. This week, last week in the week before there's no food shaming happening. He was having a good time with it. Yeah, I know. So he wasn't, he wasn't all upset. Let's be clear. And then when he saw how many sticks were a serving size, he, he felt his own shame. So how many sticks are a serving size? How many did he think was a serving size? He said that he ate the box in four days, breaking it into quarters. And I said, how many are in there? And he said 11 servings. And I said, how many sticks are a serving? And he said three. And then he like had this like, I might have eaten too many. Look on his face. And I said, dude, and I don't care what a serving size says on a box. That's not even the point. The point is he's claiming that he ate that thing in four days. I'm claiming it was three at most. And he's like, no way. I ate a fourth of it and then a fourth of it and then a fourth of it and a fourth of it. And I went, Christmas day, you had that top row gone. So don't lie to me, my guy. But again, you don't shame, especially on Christmas. You shamed him on Christmas. No, I shamed him on the 30th of December. The 29th. Okay. Yeah. Last night, the 29th of December. That's my whole point, Josh. He's claiming that he finished the box yesterday. I said, no way, dude. That thing has been licked clean days ago. He's like, no. Well, I said, I came in here on Christmas day. You were on your computer. The whole top row was gone. I saw it with my own eyes. Don't gaslight me, Mr. Quarter, Quarter, Quarter, Quarter. I don't have time for that. Well, my point is. I wasn't trying to make him feel bad about it. But then when he read that a serving size was three, he kind of went, yeah. Yeah. I might have eaten for six. I ate more than a serving. I'll tell you that much. I might have had six servings. I said, I think you went 15 day one. And he was like, no. 15 servings or 15 sticks. I think you went five servings day one. That's what I think. Hey, you'll be so proud to know that mine is still wrapped in the plastic. Same. Haven't even opened it yet. You know why? Because there's been other goodies around the house. That's exactly right, because I haven't got to them yet. Once you crack that box, you're going to stick with three. Yeah. In one hand and three in the other. Both you and Beck had to do some sleep studies. Yeah. Beck did his... Over the break, he did his a couple of nights ago. Over the weekend, yeah. And then you did yours last night. Yeah. Both of you are going to different places. This is interesting, isn't it? But the technique is essentially the same. Yeah. Very similar technology. And we both did the at home test rather than the one at the sleep center. And I don't know if you do the one at home first and they go, we need further testing and then they have you do the one at the sleep center. I don't know how it will work. I really don't know. This is my first go around. But just trying to find out if I am not breathing at night, that's kind of an important thing to breathe. Yeah. And so, yeah, but now I'm looking at like the masks and stuff. Yeah. They're pretty goofy. Well, you don't even necessarily know if you're going to need a mask or not. I mean, it's important that I'm alive. So I'm going to go ahead and do what I've got to do. I get it. They're goofy looking. But you don't even know if that's what you will need. You don't know your sleep study even says yet. No, I don't. But I know you filled out your part of the paperwork as my, what did it say, bed partner? Is that what the, uh-huh. I went, okay, that's an interesting way to say wife, but okay. No. I understand. I know. So, uh, you had some questions on there about my snoring. I did. And it's every day. And your sleep patterns. And it wasn't just your snoring. I had to answer questions about how, what your sleep positioning is. And do you, uh, sometimes choke when you're sleeping and do you often wake up and do you often wake me up and et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. What'd you say? I gave the form to you. You could have read all of it. Oh, I didn't. It wasn't private information. Just curious what you said. I filled it out with you sitting there. I even filled it out, out loud. I answered all the questions out loud. You didn't even, you weren't even paying attention. I was probably busy doing something else. Not paying attention to me. I don't know. But the point is I'm looking at these masks now. I hope you like elephants cause I'm going to look like one. You don't even know that yet. You're choking on the masks. I'm looking at the masks. I know, but you don't even know if you're going to need it. I'm just telling you, as I look at it. It's very elephant-esque. Isn't it interesting that like it just feels like more and more people are needing a sleep mask? True story. I just, it's very rare that you find somebody who doesn't sleep with a sleep mask these days. And what I also think is funny is when you arrive to work sometimes, you can see some of your coworkers with the mask, I know. Mark still on their face. I'm going to have a mask on. You are. And then you can high five all the other mask people. That's right. What's up, mask brothers? Ancestors. Did you get a good night's sleep last night? You've even been shopping for some backpacking masks. Well, yeah. You don't even know if you're going to need it yet. No, I know, but I want to know what to expect. And if you do the CPAP for backpacking, I'm kind of wondering if I, because you just need like one unit, right? So if I can find like one good unit that works for at home and backpacking, then why would I buy two? Do you see what I'm saying? No, I see what you're saying, but don't you have to have a special one when you're backpacking? It's just got to be small. And lightweight. Yeah. But why, if it works backpacking, why wouldn't it also work at home is what I'm saying. That's an excellent point. Why buy two? Why haven't at home unit and a backpack? Well, because one probably is going to use batteries and the other one is going to use electrical. Correct. That is correct. Fascinating. Yeah. Well, I'm curious to see what is discovered. You get your results in two weeks? Yeah, no, back would be two weeks. I got seven to 10 days from when I turn in my stuff today. So what do you think they're going to say? They're probably going to go, yep. Was it difficult to sleep with your? I didn't enjoy the testing thing. Get a hose in your nose. And you had to wrap a thing around your chest. Yeah. And so I think the actual like CPAP machine will be actually a little bit more comfortable than that once I get it all figured out. Because I won't have the chest thing and the finger pulse oxygen thing as well. That actually was probably the most uncomfortable part. I didn't mind the chest thing at all. I didn't care for the nose thing, but the finger thing was annoying. And probably because I'm like a T-Rex with my arms when I sleep. And so it was, it was binding me up. Did you write that in your notes? Sleeps like a T-Rex. No, because I guess I didn't know that you slept like a T-Rex. You bet. I don't even know what that means. Just with your arms on your chest. Oh, I just kind of curled up. And I've never seen you do that. Never, ever, ever. It's because you're always asleep before me. That's a total lie. It's because you face away from me when you sleep. That's true. Yeah. So you can't see what I'm up to with my little T-Rex arms sleeping away. I'll soundly. Why couldn't you do that with the finger poles? You still could. The thing was annoying. And it was really tight on my finger throughout the night because they don't want to fall off. And so you got to have that thing on there pretty good. Fascinating. I guess now it's my turn to take a sleep study test. Since everyone else in the house is doing it. Yeah, it's the thing to do. I feel loved out. It's the thing to do. It's what I hear. I wonder what I'll find out. I don't know. I'm curious to hear. Me too. Seven to ten days. And then there'll be Darth Vader. Oh, so cool. Look at this wall. It's lovely, isn't it? The wall is covered now in part because the door is all full of Christmas cards. Let's go back in time here a couple of years ago. We said, you know what would be fun is if we asked listeners to send us Christmas cards, we would send them one back. Yes. And that was the first year that we did that and we had a lot of fun with it. And we got eight cards and it was kind of a cool thing. And we were like, that's fun. And then last year we said, let's do it again. That was cool. Let's do it again. And we got 20 cards. Correct. And we were like, look at that. That is more cards than we got the first year. Well, this year being the third year, we asked again for listeners of the show to send us Christmas cards and we in turn sent out Christmas cards to folks who sent us one. And we have the entire door and a good section of the wall covered in Christmas cards. We got how many? You're not even going to believe the number that we got. Six, seven. Six, seven. We got 67 Christmas cards. That is unbelievable. We checked the mail. There were five in the mailbox today. So we've got five more going out today. I think that's probably the last that have trickled in. And then I'm kind of sad to take them all down, but I'm also going to miss getting, like it's exciting to get mail. Yeah, it's true. And it was exciting to open the mail and be like, ooh, what does this Christmas card look like? I know. We've got great little messages in there. Handmade ones. We've got pictures of families. I'm kind of sad that we're not getting, getting any more mail. Now you've held on to the cards every year, right? Oh yeah. So we have the first and second years as well. So that's, that's exciting. That's really fun. We've got like a card shoebox going. And we got, we got one from Montana. Two from Wyoming. One from North Dakota. That one came this morning. And then one from Tennessee. Yeah. You're the only 10 I see. Come on now. Every time you say Tennessee, I'm going to make that joke just so you know. Oh, I, I know Josh. That's a built in guarantee. But it also feels insincere, doesn't it? It's not though. 100%. Well, since I'm the only one in this room. The only 10 I see. Thanks. I mean, listen, what? Isn't there, isn't there a song from the flight of the concords about she's the most beautiful girl in the room? Yeah, look at you. Wow. And the most beautiful woman in the room. Feel great. You should. It's true. Facts. I just wanted to say thank you to everybody who sent us the card. Yeah. Thank you to those people who are like, oh man, I was meaning to, I had good intentions, but I didn't quite make it because I am not person. So I see you. That's right. I appreciate you. And if, if any do continue to trickle in, we'll make sure to send them out. But if you want to get involved next year, I'm sure we'll be doing this again. Oh yeah. And I'm, and I don't have anything in set in stone right now, but we are talking about potentially involving like a sponsor next year who might want to throw in a little gift that we can send out with the card next year. And I kind of want to take it to a little extra heightened level and maybe involve sending some cards to some of the nursing homes and some of the folks that maybe feel a little bit lonely or forgotten during the holidays. That feels nice. Yeah. So I want to, I want to expand upon what we've kind of built over the past few years with our Christmas cards. But thank you really to everybody, all 67 of you so far that have sent in cards. That's incredible and entirely unexpected. And it really made the studio extra special and festive. So thank you for contributing. That's really cool. It is really cool. We look forward to doing it again next year. Maybe even bigger and better. What? I know. Pretty cool. How'd you do, how'd you shake out on your fantasy football? Oh, I heard a couple of coworkers. Down the hall talking about it earlier today. I'm out. I got out a long time ago and here's you checked out. I really did. I haven't watched a single football game all year. I've watched snippets of some, but I haven't even sat through. I got into football last year and now I'm just kind of not into football. I finished in fifth. I finished in fifth out of 10. Okay. You finished eighth. That's not terrible. We both had the same record. Out of 10? Out of 10. Eight out of 10? That's like the meatloaf song. That's a 20% dude. Like the meatloaf song. No. Eight out of 10 is good. You got, you didn't do good. You're the other side of the eight out of 10. I don't care. I didn't get last, did I? No, you didn't. I didn't get last. And I believe there is a punishment for the person who did get last and I am trying to remember what that is, but that probably needs to be followed through upon. Okay. Because the person who got last is the one who ruined my playoff changes. Oh my gosh. We're never going to hear the end of this. I know. I got grounded. You grounded me from fantasy football because you said I'm no fun. I'm no fun to be around. You are not. Any fun. Yeah. I even asked last night, what was last night Monday and I heard your fantasy football make a noise. Yeah. And I said, is football even still happening? Are people even still playing? Yeah. Who played last night? The Rams? Yeah. Who's even on the Rams? There's still a lot of football happening. Like we're about to enter actual playoffs for the NFL. Fantasy football has come to a close. There's still a lot of football going on. I used to honestly last season, I knew who was playing for who is Stafford still on the Rams. Sure. He is. Okay. He's got to be, right? Yeah. So let me tell you how this broke down. I came in fifth. You're the cutest. The Rams coach. Here's our top three. Third place, Justin from the Hawk. Country station. Okay. Yes. Second place, Peaches from Cape Bear, who was also the commissioner. That's correct. Yes. And first place, congratulations to our sales guy Jacob. Sales guy Jacob is the winner of the, what our league is called the Riverbend Red Zone. You know what? He's the champion. I'm not going to congratulate him. Why? Why? Because he was rude. When you say he was rude, do you mean he was talking trash effectively? Yeah. Okay. Good. Take notes. No, I won't. True raccoon form. You. I played a pretty quiet game this year. You have to admit. You were very quiet. That's because I got too busy to watch football. But then you also got frustrated when you were losing and then you were like, I'm going to check out. I'm not even going to talk about it. The problem is that we played with too many people in the league and then I got stuck with players that I didn't even know. And then I was like, well, I hate my team. So why do I even bother? Yeah. I don't know any of these players. I didn't get any of the quarterbacks that I wanted. I didn't get any of the tight ends that I wanted. So it didn't even matter. Well. So I might be grounded from fantasy football too. You and I just probably shouldn't play. Yeah. I had a good time. Did you? Because it didn't seem like you did. I was fifth in the draft and I finished fifth place. There's something to say about that. I mean, look, I had a frustrating season. I really was hoping to get my name on that trophy and for a minute I had a really good shot at it. There was a trophy wasn't there? Yeah. And now it's going to say Jacob's name on it. Jacob. I know. Sales guy. Sales. Congratulations to Jacob. He's on currently on PTO. So he doesn't even know. Jacob. I know. I'm so happy for you. Yeah. So he gets his name on the trophy that sits in the conference room all year until next year when I get to compete again to try and win it. You're not. You get my name. Listen to me right now. What? You play fantasy football again next year. You're not allowed to talk about it to me. Well, how am I not going to talk about it to you when you're playing too? I'm not going to be. Okay. All right. We'll see. You know what's coming up next? March Madness. That's what's coming up next. Get ready to do your basketball brackets and get angry about that. I don't know anything about basketball. That's okay. Do you still have fun doing it? No. All right. I think I'm going to look at, there's online. I'm going to look at online bracket tracking. So it won't be scored the same way I do it, but it'll make it easier. So I won't have to be so involved. And maybe that's a better way to do it. So I'll be looking at that as we get closer to March. But let's, you know what? Let's just have a good rest of the December. Yeah, there's still. I came in fifth. You came in eighth. Eight. I'm better at fantasy football than you. As Mitho said, eight out of ten. You're on the wrong side of that eight. You're still, you're still in the 20% part of it. Eight out of ten. Ain't bad. I always buy Christmas presents and then I, after I buy them, I have immediate buyers remorse. Yeah, you've said that. And I go, oh, this was a dumb gift. Why did I spend so much money? He's not going to like it. They're going to hate this. It was a dumb idea. I bought you a gift that I thought was very cool. The idea that I had was very, very cool. You spent a large majority of your year thinking about planning and executing the Utah cutthroat slam. That's correct. And you completed it. You went out a couple of different times and caught all of your fish in their native waters. Correct. And they sent you your little certificate and your little pin. Coin. Coin. My medallion. And then you saved the flies that you caught your fish with. That's correct. And you have them in a little envelope. That's right. And you talked about getting it framed. And so then I thought, I'm going to go get that framed for him. Yeah. And I walked into the framing shop and I went, no, I'm not going to frame this for him because there's too many ideas. I'm overwhelmed by the choices. I don't want to make the wrong decision. I'm just going to get him a gift certificate and have this be his decision to do by himself. Yeah. Well, it's a very thoughtful gift. And but it's so, it felt so stupid to be like, here's a gift certificate. Go do it. I wanted to have it done and present that to you. Yeah. And that would have been a much cooler gift. Well, if I would have sent you the picture of my inspiration for it, that would have helped. Well, and I looked at some inspiration, but there were so many out there that I was like, I don't know which one he wants because there's different cutouts you can get for the different flies. And I don't know. So then I walked in and I went, I have no idea. None. No idea what he wants. Hmm. So you just do it yourself. And that feels dumb. And I hated even presenting you with that gift because a gift certificate does not feel thoughtful. Okay. I mean, it was nice. It was, I went over there yesterday to try and take a look at what I wanted to do, but it's all good. I'm looking, I'm trying to see if there are other examples. I only see a couple here where some folks have done like multiple cutthroat slams, but not everybody has the. The flies. The flies. And that's an interesting thing. I think, so the guide who we had with us, my buddy Jason, he had a really nice display. And so that's what I want to do. Now in 26, my goal is to do Wyoming. Oh, and you get a certificate and a coin from Wyoming also. Okay. So I'm going to have to, whatever I do, I'm going to have to have two of them. Here's the thing though. What? The Utah one is a portrait. The Wyoming one is a landscape. So there's certificate. There's no consistency there. They're a little bit different. Wow. I know. So I'm going to have to figure out what to do with that one. But even still, like even if you had sent me the picture and you were like, yeah, this is kind of the inspiration piece that I want. Right. There's still choices of frames and choices of math. I understand that. And I just didn't want to do something. And have you be like, hmm, I wouldn't have gone with that. I get what you're saying. I understand. But it also feels, I don't know. It feels dumb giving that as like a here, go do it yourself. I'm not upset about it. Okay, good. See, some folks will even put a picture of their four fish that they caught in there as well. I don't know if I'm going to worry about that. That's an interesting idea. Did you get a picture of you with all your fish? I had not with me, but holding, you have to have, you have to submit a picture of each of the fish that you caught. I see. In order for them to confirm that you caught those fish. Aha. And they go, yes, that is the correct species of fish. You did catch it. And you have to say where you caught it and the day you caught it and all that stuff. So you have to, you have to prove it. And you have to be in the photo with the fish? No. Oh, but like the photo is up the fish. So people could cheat? Well, don't cheat. I'm not saying that you should. I'm just saying that people could. I mean, you, I guess, but that, that defeats the whole purpose. Oh, I completely get it, bro. Don't cheat. I'm not saying you should. That's, you know what they call that? Stolen Valor. It's rude. Don't do that. You can't hang that certificate. Every time you look at it, you better feel guilt if you're cheating. Ugh, yuck. Sorry. I'm not saying I would do that. I'm just saying people could, if you're not in the photo or not required to be in the photo, you could just take a picture of your buddy's fish and be like, yep, I did this again. Don't do that. Stolen Valor and all that. I get it. I understand where you sit in this chair of honesty. That's where I, that's where I sit. Stolen Valor. Don't steal Valor. That's just gross. Not gonna. I don't want that certificate. You don't? No. You don't think it'd be fun to have? No, but I did hear you turn on a video the other day of a dude and his wife going fishing. And I was, I don't, don't get any ideas. You have gear. I know. I have really nice gear. Yeah. We bought you really nice waders and boots so that you could go fishing with me. But every time you take me fishing, it's to very, I know I took you to some sketchy watering holes. I shouldn't have taken you. It was a bad example of where to take you fishing. I have way better places I could take you fishing and you would have way more fun because you can just walk right up to the water and fish. And that's where I need to take you. Not on the crazy, steep adventures that I've taken you on. I understand what I did. I know what wrongs I have wrong. I'll go again. Just not there. Just not to that one particular place. Right. Cause it's steep getting in and out. It was, yeah. Just not a whole lot of fond memories. That's unfortunate cause it's a beautiful place and I do plan on going back there. I have a lot of fishing I want to do in that stretch of water because I've been watching a lot of people fish that area and different parts of it and I really want to get back there. Okay. Yeah. Take someone else. You know where I should take you is on a boat. You might like a boat. Maybe. You might like a drift. I actually might like a drift boat. Yeah. That's something I got to do. I got to do a big float trip. That's on my list. It's got to happen. Okay. You know a guy. Who? You know a couple of guys. Oh yeah. Sure. I know a couple of guys with a couple of boats. Yeah. Yeah. But hook it up. Well, you know, I will do my best. Get you out there on a boat. Then you'll be like, nah, this is it. I can sit down if I want. I can have a snack. I'm sold. Snacks? Yeah. On a boat. Drifting. Do I have to fish? Yeah. Come on now. Is it would you rather this way? Of course it is. One of the last of the year 2025. That's true. Would you rather start the new year rested or start it with a great story? Meaning would you rather have a low key New Year's Eve or are you going to go out party? Party. Is that what that means? Party. Yeah. Interesting question. I think I'm probably going to keep it low key. I think that's probably your style. I'm not a big party kind of guy. Really are not. And you never really have been. No. This will be our 24th. Or more. New Year's Eve. A lot of them. Yeah. We've spent a lot of New Year's Eve together. And you've never been much of a let's go out on the town kind of guy. Not my style. No it's not you. I always have like really good ideas. I'm like yeah let's go do something fun. And then I go never mind. You know what's fun? What? Hanging out of the house. Counting down. Having a smooch. And then calling it a day. Going like alright. Count down to the east. Oh yeah. Coming east. Doing it two hours early. Early. Okay. I see. For us we will be here. Obviously we're here today but we'll be here in studio tomorrow and then we're off the rest of the week. And then we're out to party. And then you know I don't think that's it. I don't think we're like I'm not going to go party. I think it's probably going to be pretty low key. I'm imagining it's going to be pretty low key. It's going to be low key but we're still going to have fun because guess what? We're fun people. We're just not party type of people. As I've said before radio is where introverted extroverts work. That's true. That is absolutely right. Where you're like hey look I like to have fun and I like to be in a room and talk to folks when they're listening wherever they're at. And then you go into a public space and you go like hey everybody I can see you now. That's different. People want us to talk in front of people while the people are looking at us. That's right. Oh I don't do that. I don't talk while people are staring back at me. Ew. Ew. Not ew but it's scary. Yeah well I'm keeping it low key. Keeping it low key. Yep. Same as the year before. And the year before and the year before then. Would you rather this or that. As we get closer to wrapping up our show here in just a couple of minutes I wanted to find out if you had figured out if you were going to do a resolution or not as it's 24 hours away from the new year. Ish. 24 hours. Ish. I want to but I think I always this is how I live my life. I set my resolutions too big. My resolutions too big or too lofty. And then too many of them. True. And then I set myself up for failure. So I want to do something. I heard you yesterday say that you wanted to make sure you were being more creative and doing art and those kinds of things in the new year. And I think it's more about time than anything. People go I don't have enough time to do it. But time is irrelevant. You got to prioritize it. It's a tension. You got to say I don't have enough attention to give to that thing. Because time you're only allotted so much time. And you can't make more time. So you have to make more attention happen. Which is what you're in control of. So that's the big deal. Like I definitely want to spend more time fishing and camping and spending more time in the outdoors in 26. I've said this I feel like every year I have to prioritize it because here's what happens. Our calendar fills up with a bunch of other stuff before it fills up with the things we want to do. And you'll go well we sat around we wasted a weekend. And it's like that was the first time we've had a breath of fresh air because the four weekends before it were packed with other stuff. So yeah we sat around because we finally could breathe. So we got to put the camping in first. Okay. You see what I'm saying. I see what you're saying. If you want it to happen we got to put it in the calendar now or else it won't. And we got to say we're camping this weekend. We're camping this weekend. So are you saying that I should put in my creative time in my calendar. If that's how you work. Yeah you should say hey when I get home from work I'm doing creative stuff. Like we're going to have stuff on Mondays. We're going to have stuff here and there. There will probably be some track meets stuff like that. So as things start to fill up this is what eats us alive. If you don't write it in write it in put it in now and go I can't do that. I have a lot of craft time. Okay. Do you see. I have an appointment with myself. That's what I'm saying. That's how you get it done. I have a meeting in my crafter. Like I've got to decide like hey I want to go to the gym. Yeah. I have time between work and the rest of the day after work. I could do it. Yeah. It's on the way home. I just got a bowl in there and actually go do something for 30 or 45 minutes or whatever. It's right there. It's easy. It's I can go. But I don't because it's like yeah but you know what's at home snacks. And a couch. Yeah. Comfort and laziness. I see what you're saying. I kind of you know that's the kind of thing where I have to go hey three days a week I'm turning right instead of left. Okay. Let's do it. You know what I'm saying. Let's get these resolutions knocked out. All right. Let's wrap up the show for today tomorrow. New Year's Eve. Woo. We'll be here in the morning early and then you know then that's it for the rest of the week. That'll be nice. That will be so nice. And then we'll see how we start the new year. Four day weekend. Woo. It's a good way to start the new year. I like this. Me too. Write it in the calendar. Four day weekends. It's already written in there for this weekend anyway. I'm saying let's schedule more of them. Okay. Okay. Okay. All right. Have a good rest your Tuesday. We'll see you back here tomorrow morning. Goodbye. Thanks for listening to Wake Up Classy 97, the podcast. 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